Firefox caching to NFS mounted home directories killing disk IO on file server

[john]

Hi all,

I thought I'd resurect this old thread and ask is the current (as of May
2012) way to force global firefox preferences to create two files, one
/etc/firefox/pref/firefox.js and one in the
/usr/lib/firefox-version/firefox.cfg ? That seems like a huge step backward
from the days when you could control behave from a single firefox.js file
located in /etc/firefox/prefs/.

I assume for fat clients/local apps it would be
/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/firefox/prefs/firefox.js and
/opt/ltsp/i386/usr/lib/firefox-version/firefox.cfg ?

Thanks for any light you can shed.

John


Am I misunderstanding how this is currently done. And does anybody
understand why this keeps changing?

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Emmanuel Le Normand <
Emmanuel.Le-Normand at upmf-grenoble.fr> wrote:

> Jeffrey,
>
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:10:40 -0500
> Donaldson Jeffrey <jdonaldson at ncs.k12.de.us> wrote:
>
> > Good Morning,
> ------------------
> > I then took a customized firefox.cfg file and placed it in
> > /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1. If I launch firefox, I get an error that it
> > couldn't read the configuration file. So I downloaded the mozilla 13
> > byteshift perl script and ran it on my cfg file. Then Firefox
> > launches successfully, only problem is that it doesn't seem to be
> > pulling or locking any of the preferences I set in the file (most
> > importantly, browser.cache.parent_directory). Can anyone tell me what
> > I'm doing wrong? Or is there a better way to set Firefox to cache
> > locally for all users?
>
> Why don't you desactivate this firefox's option
> "browser.cache.disk.enable" ? Cached web pages with thin client it isnt
> interresting, no ?
>
> And I googled "browser.cache.parent_directory", and the good option is
> "browser.cache.disk.parent_directory".
>
> Best regard
> Manu
>
> PS: Sorry for my bad English...
>
>
>
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